Jim Kanter
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Hmmm, all the networks, television stations and production companies that I train to use Motion consider it a very powerful broadcast production tool.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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The location slider becomes available when you select one of the color control points on the gradient editor. You can also click and drag any of the control points to adjust the distance between them.
Also, when a control point is selected, a small “bias” indicator should appear between the selected point and the points directly next to it. Normally the bias setting as at 50%, meaning it’s halfway between the colors and the gradient is as smooth and even as possible. By sliding the bias point towards one color or the other you can make the transition more abrupt from that color.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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Motion outputs alpha channels as premultiplied with black. This can cause dark fringing if the alpha channel is not being interpreted correctly in the compositing app (such as if it is being interpreted as a straight alpha channel).
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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Animating scale can also create what appears to be acceleration/deceleration effects even though the keyframes are set to linear interpolation. This is due to the difference in appearance due to the ratio of change between two values as compared to the numeric difference between them.
In a nutshell:
A change from 90% scale to 100% and from 10% to 20% scale are both 10 units of percentage but they appear to change a very different rates. 90% to 100% is a change of 10% of the object’s size, but a change from 10%-20% is a 100% change in its size, so identical unit changes appear to occur much faster when the scale is smaller than when it’s larger.Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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Option/Alt-click the Region of Interest icon a the bottom of the compostion viewer panel to reset it to none.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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Combine a z-position move of the camera with x- and y-axis scale changes on the planets in view. Make sure the z-value for the anchor point on each planet is 0.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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Frankie,
In a nutshell, After Effects is optimized for animating and compositing clips (motion graphics effects), and editors are optimized for editing clips (choosing and timing). Each can do the other’s job, but they’re clumsy at it.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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What sort of roto work? Wire removal? Masking? Paint effects?
Have you tried breaking the video into an image sequence and editing in PS, then reassembling back into a video clip?
Have you looked into FilmGIMP?
https://sourceforge.net/projects/filmgimp/Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
http://www.dfilminst.com -
Sounds like a Motion Feedback request.
Livetype textures, like Objects, LiveFonts, etc. have a unique extension and probably file type. You might try rendering out movies from LiveType that display the textures.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
http://www.dfilminst.com -
Create an image mask on the object you want the heart shape to cut then drop the heart shape onto the mask. Be sure to disable (but don’t delete) the original heart shape object if you don’t want to see the heart itself.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
http://www.dfilminst.com